Bethan Leadley
Bethan Leadley
Career
YouTube
Bethan Leadley interviews Ellie Goulding
Leadley created her channel in April of 2007 as a place to post original and cover music, but the channel turned into more of a vlog.
She created a couple of other channels called acousticbethan and justbefon in 2010 and 2012, respectively.
She has interviewed Ellie Goulding, James Bay, Ed Sheeran, Paloma Faith, and Little Mix.
She presents shows on 4Music such as "The UK music video chart" and "What's upfront."
Music
Bethan Leadley's "Day Affair" music video
On October 31, 2010, Leadley announced that she had a second channel dedicated to posting music.
Her earliest videos on her second channel, acousticbethan, were covers of songs.
On October 22, 2011, she released her first official album -Unrequited Love- on iTunes.
She released it on Luke Cutforth's record label, Lukas Records.
Her two singles on that album were Lullaby and Sorrow of the Dead.
In April 2014, Bethan was featured on London Live, where she talks about her music.
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On June 2, 2014, Leadley released a music video for her song, "Day Affair."
It was released in partnership with UK charity, *Time to Change *, a mental health campaign that aimed to generate awareness about mental health issues and reduce mental health-related stigmas and discrimination.
In November 2014, she released an EP entitled New Kinda New; she released it under LaBrec Records.
The EP featured four tracks, including "Left the Broken," for which she released a lyric video featuring a number of YouTubers prior to the release.
[11]The lead single from the New Kinda New, "Safe Lined," was released on November 2, 2014.
In January 2015, she and her band completed their first headline tour across the U.K.
She was accompanied by Dodie Clark and Box of Light.
[6]One of the venues was the London O2 Academy Islington 2, which was sold out.
On November 20, 2015, Leadley announced her second EP, Inside Her, which is to be released later this year.
Personal Life
She was previously in a relationship with Luke Cutforth.
In April 2014, Bethan announced that she had been dating comedian and creator Dean Dobbs since September 2012.
In September 2015, they confirmed that they had broken up.
She is friends with Dodie Clark, Daniel J. Layton, and fellow YouTuber Emma Blackery.